A coalition of 34,000 black churches is blasting President Barack Obama's decision to stop defending the federal law that bans recognition of gay marriage.In the 2008 election black voters in California turned out in large numbers to support Obama and to vote for Proposition 8, the California measure that banned gay marriage. Support for Prop 8 among black voters was something like 70% and it could easily be argued that their support put the measure over the top. Gay marriage is not popular in the black community at large, and blacks were even threatened with violence over their support for Prop 8.
The Rev. Anthony Evans, who heads the National Black Church Initiative, says Obama "has violated the Christian faith" by failing to uphold Jesus' teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that, at Obama's direction, it would not defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in a court case where it's being challenged.
As a result, Evans says black churches must "reassess their extraordinary support for him."
The question now is whether black church members will be more faithful to their beliefs than to Obama?
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Didn't we suspect The Won was RAAAAACIST?
And it looks like he may well lose part of the black vote.
That's what happens to RAAAAACISTS.
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